At least the nobler sorts; for take the bee
As instance,—copying King Solomon,—
Why that displeasure of the bee to aught
Which savors of incontinency, makes
The unchaste a very horror to the hive?
Whence comes it bees obtain their epithet
Of castæ apes, notably "the chaste"?
Because, ingeniously saith Scaliger,
(The young sage,—see his book of table-talk)
"Such is their hatred of immodest act,